Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skrev: (12 mars 2019 13:32:26 CET)

swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net> writes:
 The idea is to add to guix a way to inform the user that the package
 they just searched for is not included in guix because of freedom
 issues.

 The idea is that when we refuse a package to be included we add it
 with a short reason to this list.

 Something like this
 (issues
   (package odoo
   (reason "trapping users by withholding update scripts, see gnu.org/link.to.article"
   (alternatives '(dolibarr tryton smbledger ledger hledger gnucash)))

I don’t think it’s a good idea to clutter Guix with packages that we
won’t add.  There’s already a lot in Guix to provide free software
packages; I don’t think we should add “negative packages”.

That’s out of scope for Guix and could be handled by some other GNU
resource instead.

--
Ricardo